"There is a "nightmare scenario" that particle physicists have worried about for years: Finding exactly the Standard Model Higgs and nothing else. I personally assign the nightmare scenario very low probability. We know the Standard Model is not right; there is dark matter, there is dark energy, there is baryogenesis, there are the hierarchy and cosmological constant and strong-CP problems. It can’t be the final answer. Seems to me much more likely that there is interesting physics at the weak scale above and beyond the Higgs, than we just get stuck with a vanilla Standard Model. There is the wishful hope that the Higgs itself leads directly to new physics. Example: in many models of dark matter as weakly-interacting massive particles, the dominant way that dark matter and ordinary matter interact is through exchange of Higgs bosons. If that’s how nature works, the Higgs is literally a portal from our world to another. This isn’t the end of the show, it’s merely an act break (as we say in the movie biz)." - Adriano

Another good live-blog: http://www.quora.com/Jay-Wac... by Jay Wacker, "17:53: Fabiola Gianotti begins ATLAS presentation with Comic Sans prominently chosen again. Some jokes about what the press thinks the Higgs boson looks like. Slides are nearly unreadable. Uggh." - Adriano